Shot by the Lumière Brothers, French men credited with being the world’s first filmmakers, the 1897 footage shows Dublin’s O’Connell Street, at the turn of the century.

The documentary on the 1916 Easter Rising includes rare footage of Pearse’s famous oration at the graveside of Irish republican Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, used at the time as a propaganda tool for Irish republicans, who were struggling to win support in advance of the Rising.

The 30-minute movie includes the famous conclusion to the oration when Pearse called the Irish nation to arms just eight months before the Easter Rising.

* Originally published in October 2014

1897 footage taken by the Lumière Brothers featured in 1916 Rising documentary “Ireland: Birth of a Nation.”YouTube